A December Rally Is No Sure Thing

12/3/2012 10:58AM

The final month of the year is typically a jolly time for stock investors, but those positive historical trends come head-to-head this year with the fiscal cliff. Steven Russolillo reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... I ... also ... see a little ... so you get your morning MarketBeat on ... the December rally ... running into the fiscal cliff exactly December hasn't faced the fiscal cliff look quite like this and and so I think that that's the key RightNow's historically ... this is a good month of the year for stocks ... it's that the best month for the SB five hundred dating back to nineteen fifty so ... I generally use the market to soar to trickle higher into year-end ... that's the seasonal ... aspect of this ... now on the flip side you have the fiscal cliff and all the though the wrangling ... in Washington so ... that rate now at least isn't really hindering the market that much time we've seen the last few weeks the market has bounced back after the post election sell so ... you have those two dogs forces I e knowing if the TV is over the weekend on a Sunday morning talk shows had their various ... politicians on ... Nov Jennifer take the lead in the stalemate great now right yet if it has publicly that he's been released publicly never know what these guys are saying ... in public compared with the doing part of the publicly is a stalemate ... stock market not so concerned red riding you'd pay a lot of people ... the consensus is they are going to come towards sums there was some sort of deal and that some people expecting and anything beforehand just ... posturing it says he'll political public posturing gets so ... I think it's cold and ... however please Audi could get ugly it may get messy but in school ... by the end of the year people are expecting some sort of deal and so ... that's a people we talked on the market to say that that they're kind of expecting now and so ... I'm told there are signs otherwise ... I think you could see the seasonal ... factors at play here that the market could trickle higher unless something crazy at Outlook field ... comes out of these negotiations ended also point out what happened in December to all been so to PC took a handsome nephew ... as a good point so generally when there is here Quantum quote Santa Claus rally ... that ... does lead to better times at least in the peak in the short term in the year ahead ... and so and when it doesn't it doesn't selected in December nineteen eighty is an example that we use them the story ... it was a pretty bad December ... the market in nineteen eighty one had a pretty ... bad here as well ... but that you have the economic downturn that year so that's also something considered the up and notice an example that we use so what if there's a good the summer rally is generally historically leads to the last year has ample was good Draghi's enroute to the SNP is up about point nine percent a year and the flat rate but then this year and Allison is up thirty percent so ... sell ... the December matters the fiscal cliff ... the veterans widows of Mademoiselle we find out what the religion in Kew ... Heights t think you're a much CIT is on the blogging team